Checking for running apps in X

[Brian Medley]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:26:06PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:

> > > 1) How do I check, from the command line, if there's already an instance
> > > of a given program running in the current X display, and
> > 
> > Look into "xlswins" or "xlsclients"?
> 
> xlsclients shows me what's running. Thanks. 
> 
> xlswins doesn't exist on my system (Redhat 7.1). Is that a separate add-on,
> or a different name for the same tool on another flavor of Unix?

I should've mentioned in the post - I got the info from searching
groups.google.com (excellent source of info).  You might try searching for
"raise window" (also, you may want to click on "Search only in...").

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.windows.x

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